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Nozawa Now: Thursday 8th January 2015

  • Jan 8, 2015
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 582cm

Posted on Thursday 8th January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Good morning and hello from Nozawa.


We've got more snow this morning to report, between 20-40cm according to the resort and there's definitely a good new layer of snow to shovel outside here in the village too.


Light snow expected today especially on higher slopes, maybe some sun tomorrow along with cloud. More snow over the weekend.


Glad to see that it seems set to remain cold so snow conditions should be a keeper.


This coming Monday, the 12th, is a national holiday here in Japan and there'll be a few events happening at Nozawa. Including a 'mochi-tsuki taikai' event hosted by everyone's favourite vegetable Nasuki, over at the Hikage Information Centre at 10:30am and 2pm. No less exciting is the 7:50am start by the Nagasaka Gondola to take lucky people up for first tracks. Or so it the resort tells me. That one sounds good.


As the coming weekend is a 3 day long one, it's one of the peak weekends of the season so expect a fair few people here in Nozawa.



Nozawa Now 2014-2015 season

Data as of Thursday 8th January 2015 Total snowfall at base 582cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 19 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 70cm (14th and 18th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 437cm reported on 14 days January 2015 snowfall 145cm reported on 5 days




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